Archive for the ‘Journalism’ Category
Early Morning Follow Up: Sgt. James Crowley Should Have Walked Away
Saturday, July 25th, 2009The Cambridge Controversy – A Late Night Thought
Friday, July 24th, 2009Why hasn’t any reporter asked the President if he or his wife have ever experienced the kind of harrassment that Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates experienced in his home? Or the kind of experience that the Center for Constitutional Rights and the New York Civil Liberties Union have been documenting about the NYPD treatment of People of Color in New York City. There are other forms of bigotry that blight the American Dream.
Personally, this writer is glad the Prez said what he said about the “stupidity” of the police at the scene. But this late night thought needs development.
Federal Judge Rules That the Hiring Practices of the New York City Fire Department Are Racially Discriminatory
Friday, July 24th, 2009Is this a bombshell decision or what?
Obama Used the Word Stupid and the Stupid Begins
Friday, July 24th, 2009This is a moment in history when serious discourse is necessary but here comes the seriously insufficient and deficient news reportage, exemplified, on short notice, by this story published by the New York Daily News, the only big urban daily ever found guilty in a federal discrimination lawsuit of of abusing the job rights of people of color on its editorial staff.
[It also has to be said, based on old Press Clips from the Village Voice and other news sources whose specific names and dates don’t come to mind right now, that Italian Americans also had rough times at the News because of their ethnicity].*
A Historical Moment: Should President Barack Obama Have Called the Cambridge Police Officer’s Actions “Stupid”?
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009He did and his comments were heard around the world. [Google results: 1,230,000 for obama calls cambridge cop stupid]
Rabid in Manhattan
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009… Also in Queens and the Bronx
Health E-News – NYC Gov. on Jul 21, 2009 – Six rabid animals – all raccoons—have been identified in New York City this year. Four were found in the Bronx, one in Manhattan (near Inwood Hill Park), and one in Queens (Long Island City). Raccoons are the most commonly reported rabid animals in New York City.
Considering the breadth of local broadcast news coverage in the last few days, one would think that an  animal story of this magnitude would be popping up on the screen.
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No direct relation to the ones identified in NYC boroughs
Not so (so far).
A Cosmic Conjunction of Race News on CNN’s Campbell Brown?
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Brown, a no-show tonight. John Roberts fills in. Â Race shows up, though not the lead story, but in prime time view:
Tell TV Networks to Stop Censoring Health Care Debate – FAIR
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Help FAIR, Healthcare Now!, Physicians for a National Health Program and the Raging Grannies deliver a message to the news media: “Include Single-Payer in Healthcare Debate” Petition delivery, Tuesday, July 28, noon – 1 p.m., ABC News, 77 West 66th St., between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue, NYC.
Sonia Sotomayor – Cutting to the Chase
Sunday, July 19th, 2009I watched and listened to some of the hearings. I did not wretch. Same for a few on-air news analyses and commentaries (CNN, Channel 13-PBS, assorted ABC, NBC, et. al. affiliates and nationals). I should have checked the local news broadcast in Peoria but didn’t have the presence of mind (but it’s coming).
Nevertheless, I did not wretch.
I hung in there as long as I could – much, much longer than I did for the Michael Jackson spectacle – until it became clear she would sail through. And then I read New York Times Frank Rich’s column today and realized my mistake. I’m seriously considering a mini-doc now that I know what I missed but it’s not as much of a miss as the mainstream news media. It’s merely a missed opportunity that can be corrected.
Check this excerpt:
“Much of the audience was surely driven away by the sheer boredom of watching white guys incessantly parse the nominee’s “wise Latina†remark. This badgering was their last-ditch effort to prove that Gingrich was right when he called Sotomayor a racist at the start of the nomination process. She confronted that overheated controversy directly. “I do not believe that any ethnic, racial or gender group has an advantage in sound judgment,†Sotomayor testified. “
Read Frank Rich’s New York Times Column here.
Tell the News Media to Get It Right
Friday, July 24th, 2009Keep up the pressure for a media debate on healthcare reform that includes single-payer.
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